by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:
This time, the “elections are too important to let voters decide” moment happened in France. It’ll probably go about as well as the Democratic attacks on Donald Trump did last year.
Marine Le Pen is easily the most popular politician in France.
On Sunday, a poll found her the clear front-runner for the 2027 Presidential election. On Monday, a French court said she couldn’t run.
A judge in Paris found Le Pen and her right-wing National Rally party had used funds from the European Union to pay party workers. For this sin, the judge sentenced Le Pen to two years of house arrest — and banned her from the 2027 election.
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The decision is France’s version of the Democratic efforts to chase Donald Trump from the 2024 Presidential race. It comes as German politicians are considering moving against the AfD, that county’s major right-wing party. When will the left realize these games undercut its claim to stand for democracy and the rule of law?
Legacy media outlets, in Europe and the United States, call the National Rally party “far right.” Almost definitionally, that can’t be true; the most popular party in a democracy can be conservative, liberal, even communist, but it can’t be far anything.
The National Rally was founded in 1972 as the National Front by Le Pen’s father, Jean, who defended French collaboration with the Nazis and downplayed the Holocaust. Marine Le Pen ousted her father from it in 2015 and changed its name in 2018.
She repudiated Jean’s most noxious views and moved the party left economically, promising to protect France’s generous welfare state. At the same time, she kept its core anti-immigration and tough on crime attitudes. In other words, she remade it as populist and nationalist first, conservative second, very much like Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
Her changes have resonated with French voters, who are frustrated with violence and terrorism from poorly integrated Muslim immigrants. Many of the deadliest terror attacks against Western countries have occurred in France, including the Bataclan nightclub massacre and related attacks in November 2015, which killed 131 people.
France also appears to be swinging against expensive decarbonization efforts, though its backlash has not been as severe as Germany’s, probably because the French have nuclear power plants keeping electricity relatively affordable.
And so Marine Le Pen is now the front-runner for the 2027 French Presidential election. The poll Sunday found her with the support of 37 percent of voters, about 15 points ahead of anyone else.1
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